I found this game by searching for games similar to Psychonauts. While I wouldn't put it on that list myself, the game has imaginative characters with an aesthetic reminiscent of the Henry Selick movies Coraline, James and the giant peach and Nightmare before Christmas, with a great story that is presented in a fairy-tale way through an omniscient and often amusing narrator, who has some epic lines such as "There was an awkward silence, and I felt obliged to fill it."

The game play mostly involves exploring the world of Random, where sometimes you get trapped and need to defeat all robot enemies, which are based on chess pieces. You do this by using a slingshot to shoot little crystals that appear on their bodies to fill a little bar up of up to 5 cards, and as soon as you have 1 card you can roll your living dice buddy, which stops time. The roll gives you points to activate one or more of the cards, giving you weapons such as a bow, a sword or a giant mace. There's also cards like bombs, health potions, point-giving cards that are free to activate and cards that affect your dodge abilities or help poison enemies. Time continues once you attack an enemy.

It's original and fun, requiring some minor deck-building (your deck is 15 cards) and having a nice risk vs reward when it comes to waiting until you can play many different cards, or rolling as soon as possible. However, with only 35 different cards the customization options are limited and the fights did feel like a bit of a bore before I reached the end of the game.

The game occasionally tries to mix things up by having the dice affect a giant game piece that then moves across the board, but these serve as little more as extensions of the battles you're already used to.

It isn't very difficult, there are about 7 different enemy types, not including bosses, and their attacks are all telegraphed. The story was wonderful, though, with many great characters throughout the game and surprises in every of the 6 towns you travel through.

While the game play lost its appeal on me midway, the story and characters kept me playing. The story is about Even, an 11 year old girl, living in Onecroft, that loses her sister, Odd, to chance. In the world of Random, every child at the age of 12 is required to roll the queens black dice, the child is then taken and placed into the town which number they rolled. Odd is taken to Sixtopia. Almost a year later, Even sees a ghost and, assuming it is her sister guiding her, follows it outside. It isn't long before she meets Dicey, who grants her the power to fight the queens repressive robot army. It sound like a very simple setup, but the characters and the world-building creates a lot of depth.

I hope that the next game, a different genre of game (a rogue-lite top-down game that looks to be a prequel) will lead to a proper sequel that expands on the card building and adds a bigger variety of enemies and challenges, as well as expand the world beyond 6 numbers.

RANDOM RULES!
Love this game. Medievil vibes are strong with this one <3. Tim Burton, Alice: Madness Returns too.
Perfect game for the 'spooky' season. Wholesome, complete experience. Very well executed.
Fighting is fantastic and captivating, encourages player to try different playing styles, despite some being less effective but more fun.
Strongest point of the game is the fantastic world and story build around it. Levels are super chill, you iterate from one place to another in a smooth and coherent manner, do side quests of a level of a Gothic game (dunno why this one comes to mind xD). Game generally gives the best kind of vibes and associations. It's just a feel good, relax type of game, despite the quite sometimes morbid plot and pretty wicked topics.
Characters are a huge plus, they are very interesting, superbly voiceovered, look very unique, like anything You've seen before. The whole look of the game is a sight to see.

Fantastic game, which I got for a steal tbh. Was discounted like 90% or so.
Can't say anything bad about it. A complete experience. I just want more games like this. ;]

Such an interesting, imaginative, and charming game. Don't let it being associated with EA deter you. This is a very shiny hidden gem.